Shar Joyner

is an international film and video game composer.

Joyner began her music experience learning violin at age 8. Through her schooling, she also studied voice throughout her middle and high school career while changing her instrument of study to flute during the last year of her middle school studies. She went on to high school to eventually become principal of her high school's concert band and by her senior year drum major of the marching band. 

Joyner went on to study music composition at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. During this time of study, she also studied flute with Professor Carla Copeland - Burns, Dr. Erika Boysen, and Megan Makeever-Ali. She also undertook independent study projects where she learned the composition process for film music. 

Joyner earned a Master's in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music, London as an RCM Scholar. Post-graduation, she is enjoying teaching music part-time while working on numerous independent film and video game projects. 

10 Questions to Know Me

  • There's always some variation of this question and it's always THE HARDEST TO ANSWER.

    Jurassic Park

    Spirited Away

    Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

    **my opinion on these is subject to change every 5 minutes.

  • I love a great horn feature or a bombastic low brass feature!

  • My first concert (non-classical) was to see All Time Low my senior year! It was such a blast!

  • When I was a freshman in college, in one of my courses, we had an open discussion in class where the goal was for each person to name a composer as we went around the room, no repeats. People were naming these prolific composers like Dvorak, Bach, Mahler, etc. and I couldn't relate because I was a band kid who didn't get to play in orchestras. I just started naming my favorite band composers as people began running out of the main classical composers. From that experience, I learned that even though my realm of experience may be different no matter where I go, my experience still MATTERS and having a different perspective could be would saves the day.

  • I'm a HUGE football fan, so if I could ever do one of the shorts of player intros, to give some epic background music, I'd be so thrilled!

  • My friends can attest to this, I watch SmackDown. For some reason, whenever I play SmackDown reruns, my creative juices just start flowing again and I complete whatever project I'm on. Absolutely no clue why this is!

  • Wearing hoodies with shorts when it is actually cold outside. What internal body temperature are you trying to achieve?!

  • The entire Hannah Montana Discography. If I could have attended specifically a Hannah Montana concert, I'd be screaming every word perfectly.

  • When I was young, my family used to call me "Sha-Nay-Nay" after a TV character. It drove me absolutely crazy at the time, but now I look back at that so fondly.

  • Video games, mud mask, tidying my room, composing for my personal projects, most importantly, not having to exit my home AT ALL.

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